Accelerating on a treadmill: ADF/Cofilin promotes rapid actin filament turnover in the dynamic cytoskeleton

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1165-1168

  Theriot, Julie A ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR; COFILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYTOSKELETON; DEPOLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETON; DESTRIN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; KINETICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PLANT PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030798735     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.6.1165     Document Type: Short Survey

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